• Working From Home? How To Cope Gracefully With Stress

    Working from home, particularly with your own business, can be liberating. It’s easy to feel like earning your independence and your own income is all peaches and cream, passive income and Paypal notifications. But it’s not always quite that smooth, so you need to prepare to deal with any difficulties that arise. Let’s set your business and life up so that you can continue to stay well, to stay motivated and to provide for yourself, yes? Making these provisions requires emotional and physical action and I’ve got 3 top tips for you to begin today:

  • Gratitude & Grace List: High Summer Edition

    Inspired by my dear friend Gala Darling, I’m taking my love lists out of my (gold, sparkly) journal and sharing them with you. It’s been so warm here…long sunny days. This morning I went out with the dogs without.wearing.a.coat! I am loving this summer weather and am grateful for every sunny day. Here’s some more things I’m grateful for:

  • Allow Me To Introduce: Pretty By Post [New Sponsor]

    Pretty By Post, a monthly greeting card (and a quarterly stationary box) subscription service for paper and people lovers, is our latest sponsor. The opinions and words used here are, as always, my own. P.S. Pretty By Post has a lovely gift for you. Read on for details… 4 Reasons Why I Love Pretty By Post: 1. Cards and Mail Change Lives I have been house bound and bed bound, living and healing with chronic illnesses. I’ve also spent time in hospital and supported people who’ve spent significant amounts of time there. I know what it’s like to get a letter and have it brighten your whooole week. The fact that…

  • Disabled & Dreaming of Self-Employment? I Wrote This For You

    Working for yourself, setting your own schedule, making your own rules and doing meaningful work you love – that’s the dream, right? It’s a beautiful thing, it’s my career path after all, and I love it, and love helping people to make the dream true for them in my upcoming entrepreneur-activation program The Phoenix Flight School. But for many people who live with a chronic illness or disability, the challenges of setting up a business can feel insurmountable.  But it doesn’t have to be that way! [Tweet “Going self-employed with a disability is a totally viable option and I’m here to help you out.”] I’m not saying there won’t be challenges to overcome, or…